STATE OF NEW YORK
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7794
IN SENATE
February 21, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT amend the village law, in relation to allowing for an additional
village justice for the village of Brewster in Putnam county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3-303 of the village law, as added by chapter 107
2 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 3-303 Additional village justices in certain villages. At least one
4 hundred fifty days prior to any village general election and subject to
5 a permissive referendum, as provided by article nine of this [title]
6 chapter, the board of trustees of the following villages may adopt a
7 resolution determining that such village shall have three village
8 justices with the third village justice to be elected by the electors at
9 the next village general election to begin serving a term of office
10 beginning at the start of the official year next succeeding such village
11 general election:
12 The village of Spring Valley in Rockland county.
13 The village of Brewster in Putnam county.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15138-01-0
